I was delighted to see that the Werner Institute at Creighton University School of Law in Omaha, Nebraska has announced that the deadline for submitting proposals for the 2011 AALS Works-in-Progress Conference has been extended to September 30. This will provide an opportunity for scholars who were unable to submit their proposal by the initial … Continue reading Works-in-Progress Conference–Deadline Extended
I am passing along a note from the organizers of Mediation Settlement Day in New York City: I would like to encourage you to invite your students (and possibly offer extra credit), colleagues and friends to attend our Annual Mediation Settlement Day Kick-Off Event on Tuesday, October 18, 2011 at the New York City Bar … Continue reading Mediation Settlement Day in NYC
Registration is now open for the 2011-2012 Representation in Mediation Competition. This law school competition provides students the opportunity to role-play as advocates and clients in a mediation setting and measures how well students model appropriate preparation for and representation of a client in mediation. Each team consists of two students. In each round of … Continue reading Registration now open for 2011-2012 ABA Representation in Mediation Competition
The New York Times carried a story today about a labor union that is often afraid to ask for more or confront management. In New York, members of the Federation of Catholic Teachers are reportedly working without a contract and as a group tend to not want to confront management, the Archdiocese. When teaching negotiation, … Continue reading A Labor Day Lesson
FOI Jean Sternlight has just announced a symposium in which I expect our blog readers will be interested. The focus is democracy in the workplace, and the symposium will be interdisciplinary in nature. See the below call for papers for details. As Jean notes, Las Vegas is quite nice in February! UNIVERSITY OF NEVADA LAS VEGAS WILLIAM S. … Continue reading UNLV Law School Saltman Center Call for Papers–Democracy and the Workplace
From the National Law Journal yesterday: “Judge stalls Prius headlight settlement, citing ‘big problem’ with fees” —– A federal judge, citing concerns about a request for attorney fees, has put the brakes on a proposed class action settlement between Toyota Motor Corp. and nearly 300,000 owners and lessees of Prius hybrids who claimed that their … Continue reading Prius Headlight Settlement “Stalled”
Last week my good friend Greg Scott, a reading and writing instructor at the University of Missouri, collapsed as he was walking to class and passed away a short while later. Greg’s true love in life was teaching. Not everyone can make Legal Research and Writing somebody’s favorite law school class, but he did time and … Continue reading Gregory J. Scott, 1957-2011
A newly formed Swiss political party is trying to save us all (or at least the Swiss) from boring power point presentations. The new Anti-Power Point Party wants to prohibit power point, claiming it would both save money (by their estimate €350bn) and help us to once again enjoy “real discussion about ideas as opposed … Continue reading Against Power Point
FOI (Friend of Indisputably) John Lande (Missouri) provides this guest blog post to shed light on some recent Collaborative Law Developments. There were two recent decisions involving Collaborative Law that have larger implications about parties’ autonomy in choosing dispute resolution processes generally. In my view, this is a good news-bad news story as one of the decisions recognized parties’ … Continue reading Party Autonomy in Choosing Dispute Resolution Processes
From Jen Reynolds (Oregon) and Gina Brown (ABA DR Section). This is the once-a-year reminder we send out about the online directory the American Bar Association Section of Dispute Resolution and the University of Oregon School of Law have been working together for several years to maintain. The directory appears at: http://adr.uoregon.edu/aba/ We hope that … Continue reading Online Directory of Law School ADR Programs
